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SharePoint -- Recycle File (Move File to Recycle Bin)

Moves the file to the Recycle Bin and returns the identifier of the new Recycle Bin item.

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    -- This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    -- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
    -- Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'Login', 'SHAREPOINT_USERNAME'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'Password', 'SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'LoginDomain', 'SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'NtlmAuth', 1

    -- The more common case is to use SharePoint Online authentication (via the SPOIDCRL cookie).
    -- If so, do not set Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth, and instead
    -- establish the cookie as shown at SharePoint Online Authentication

    DECLARE @req int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpRequest', @req OUT

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'HttpVerb', 'POST'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'Path', '/_api/web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl(''/ChilkatDocLibrary/sample.docx'')/recycle'

    -- We must add a form digest value in the X-RequestDigest header field.
    -- See this example for details on
    -- how to get (and cache) a form digest value
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'X-RequestDigest', 'SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST'

    -- Send the request to move the file to the recycle bin.
    DECLARE @bUseTls int
    SELECT @bUseTls = 1
    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpSReq', @success OUT, 'SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN', 443, @bUseTls, @req, @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @xml int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Xml', @xml OUT

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'LoadXml', @success OUT, @sTmp0

    -- A successful response will return the 200 status code.
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 200
      BEGIN

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
        PRINT 'Response status code = ' + @iTmp0
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0

        PRINT 'Failed'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xml
        RETURN
      END

    -- Show the XML response.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
    -- of the single-node XML that is returned:
    DECLARE @guid nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @xml, 'Content', @guid OUT

    PRINT 'GUID of recycle item = ' + @guid


    PRINT 'Success.'

    -- A successful XML response looks like this:

    -- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    -- <d:Recycle xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices"
    --  xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"
    --  xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"
    --  xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
    --  m:type="Edm.Guid">
    --     63b9924d-e9c1-4d7b-b1c2-e921ad85aa1c
    -- </d:Recycle>

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xml


END
GO